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United Nations Population Fund

Fonds des Nations Unies pour la population; Fondo de Población de las Naciones Unidas

To ensure reproductive rights for all. To accomplish this, UNFPA works to ensure that all people, especially women and young people, are able to access high-quality sexual and reproductive health services, including voluntary family planning, so that they can make informed and voluntary choices about their sexual and reproductive lives.

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United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Promote the greater good which the Church offers humankind, especially through forms and programmes of the apostolate fittingly adapted to the circumstances of time and place.

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United States Institute of Peace

Prevent, mitigate and resolve violent conflicts around the world by engaging directly in conflict zones and providing analysis, education and resources to those working for peace.

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Universal Peace Federation

Build a world of peace in which everyone can live in freedom, harmony, cooperation and prosperity; advocate renewal of the United Nations, including a proposal that the UN create an interreligious council within its structures; implement its programs through a global network of Ambassadors for Peace; encourage all religions to dialogue and cooperate for peace based upon the recognition that human dignity derives from a universal divine source that is the basis of harmony and unification; offer relief and humanitarian programs, service-learning projets, character education and sports programs with a special focus on personal leadership and peacemaking skills.

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Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit

Undertake externally funded research and development projects in religions and education and related fields; have specialist expertise in a wide range of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and in applying the findings of research to fields such as religious education, intercultural education, citizenship education, peace education, human rights education, teacher training, clergy training, and medical education; contribute to research and development collaborations in Europe, Asia, Australasia, Southern Africa, and North America; contribute to dissemination of research and development findings via the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations 'Education about Religions and Beliefs' clearinghouse website; contribute to dissemination of research and development through collaboration with the Council of Europe related European Wergeland Centre in Oslo; contribute to Council of Europe policy and practice on incorporating the dimension of religious diversity into intercultural education in 47 European states; contribute to an Organisation for Security and Co-operation project on producing international guiding principles for teaching about religions and beliefs for 56 participant states; contribute to EC policy on religion, education, dialogue, and conflict through a Framework 6 research project; contribute to a major project for the UK Government's Department for Children, Schools, and Families on materials used to teach about world religions in schools of all types in England; contribute to a major AHRC/ESRC research project in the 'Religion and Society' programme, on young people's attitudes in the UK to religious diversity; contribute to the introduction of the interpretive approach to teaching and learning in religious education in countries including Britain, many European countries, Turkey, Canada, the USA, Japan, and South Africa; contribute to religious education policy and practice in Europe and in England, Wales and Northern Ireland; contribute to knowledge and understanding of young people's values in the UK and Europe more widely; contribute to understanding of children's dialogue on religious, values and citizenship issues; contribute to understanding of various forms of faith-based education; contribute to understanding of religion in relation to health issues, including mental and psychological health; contribute to religious education in the locality of the University via the Coventry and Warwickshire Standing Advisory Councils for Religious Education.

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World Alliance of Young Men’s Christian Associations

Alliance universelle des unions chrétiennes de jeunes gens; Weltbund der Christlichen Vereine Junger Maenner; Alianza Mundial de Asociaciones Cristianas de Jóvenes

Share the good news of Jesus Christ and striving for spiritual, intellectual and physical well-being of individuals and wholeness of communities; empower all, especially young people and women to take increased responsibilities and assume leadership at all levels and working towards an equitable society; advocate for and promote the rights of women and upholding the rights of children; foster dialogue and partnership between people of different faiths and ideologies and recognising the cultural identities of people and promoting cultural renewal; commit to work in solidarity with the poor, dispossessed, uprooted people and oppressed racial, religious and ethnic minorities; seek to be mediators and reconcilers in situations of conflict and working for meaningful participation and advancement of people for their own self-determination; defend God's creation against all that would destroy it and preserve and protect the earth's resources for coming generations.

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World Communion of Reformed Churches

Weltgemeinschaft Reformierter Kirchen; Comunión Mundial de Iglesias Reformadas; Communion mondiale d'Eglises réformées

Understand better each other's theology among WCRC's 229 churches (denominations) in 108 countries and to work together on issues of common concern that affect our daily lives: community relations, human rights, economic systems, and climate change.

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World Council of Churches

Ökumenischer Rat der Kirchen; Conseil œcuménique des Églises; Consejo Mundial de Iglesias; Conselho Mundial de Igrejas; Всемирный Совет Церквей

Pursue the goal of the visible unity of the Church. This involves a process of renewal and change in which member churches pray, worship, discuss and work together.

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World Jewish Congress

Congrès juif mondial; Congreso Judío Mundial; Juedischer Weltkongress; Congresso Judaico Mundial; Congresso Ebraico Mondiale

Foster the unity and represent the interests of the Jewish people, and ensure the continuity and development of its religious, spiritual, cultural, and social heritage; enhance solidarity among Jewish communities throughout the world and strengthen the bonds of Jewish communities and Jews in the Diaspora with Israel; secure the rights, status and interests of Jews and Jewish communities and defend them wherever they are denied, violated or threatened; encourage and assist the creative development of Jewish social, religious, and cultural life throughout the world, support Jewish education and the development of Jewish values, and ensure Jewish continuity and the transmittal of Jewish legacy from one generation to another; assist Jewish communities in strengthening their Jewish identities and in confronting problems in the political, legal, social, religious, cultural or economic spheres; represent and act on behalf of Member Communities and the Jewish people as a whole vis-à-vis governments, governmental authorities, international and intergovernmental organisations and authorities, non-governmental organisations, inter-faith groups, other faiths and civic bodies; preserve the memory of the Holocaust and of the millions of Jews and countless Jewish communities destroyed during the Shoah, and advocate on behalf of its survivors and their families; combat anti-Semitism in all its manifestations and raise the consciousness of the public at large to the dangers inherent in any incitement to religious, racial, or ethnic intolerance, oppression or persecution; foster, support and participate in inter-faith dialogue; encourage and promote gender equality and the involvement of younger Jews in Jewish communal and organisational leadership; cooperate with governments, nations, organisations, and individuals, to accomplish the above goals in the spirit of peace, freedom, equality and justice.

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World Scout Bureau – European Scout Region

Bureau Mondial du Scoutisme - Région Européenne du Scoutisme

Assist the World Organization in fostering the Scout Movement in Europe.

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